David Bowie R.I.P

Ooh, great - thanks!

Watching Hours-era interview on TFI Friday plus an interview on Jonathan Ross circa Reality and its worthwhile pointing out what a funny, warm, candid interviewee Bowie was, even if material at the time was mixed.

lol one of my first published reviews: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/david-bowie-back-in-magnificent-form/

You lost a small plot of land.

I woke up to this, shared by a friend, made my day already:

https://youtu.be/KeIDJLw5DB4

This is making mine – Bowie on Johnny Carson in 1980 doing Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, with Carlos Alomar and GE Smith on guitar:

http://youtu.be/NkefglL9c4c

omg collardio that's priceless

When you're being interviewed by a Professional Yorkshireman like Michael Parkinson it pays to have a Yorkshire story up your sleeve, smart work from 't lad, Bowie.

At some point needed the aid of the Portuguese subtitles to follow.

TCB lightning bolt jewelry started around 72, so guess there was time for Bowie to become aware of it and incorporate before Aladdin Sane.

I could listen to Bowie speaking Northern for HOURS.

So James Redd went to see one of the Blackstar band members perform last Tuesday and talked to him a little bit. He told me how much he enjoyed working with and talking to both Bowie and Tony Visconti, that Bowie had, as we know, read tons of books and that he always had really interesting things to say about the many topics he had learned about, not as a show-off but in a more humble way. He recommended the Tony Visconti book., so I asked did Tony give you a copy before you started working on the project and he said no, he had already read it beforehand.

I could listen to Bowie speaking Northern for HOURS.

― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, January 24, 2016 10:29 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SAME

that Life On Mars band performance is TIGHT!

Yeah Bowie speaking Northern is magic

Then how come he didn't do an Eric Burdon imo on that tape? If not Alan Price.

A gay friend of mine who grew up in Wakefield (Northern town) had me in hysterics with stories about his French class at school, alongside hard-lad miner's sons who could be reduced to tears because they kept saying FAR ME DOBBLE when asked to say formidable.

What about the running gag on Alan Partridge about the Geordie accent?

XP I have just sent said friend the above link.

This may be the least of its problems, but Labyrinth is on UK television right now and WHO TOLD JENNIFER CONNELLY SHE COULD ACT?

Um...

Yeah, who cares if she can or not, eh boys ;)

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/194024/Screen-Shot-2014-10-22-at-12-28-52.jpg

Hahaha!

she's good in labyrinth!

Visconti breaks down Heroes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g18sx

(xp) Pretty sure she's a better actor than, er, David Bowie.

how dare u

also she was like 14 at the time!

LOL that explains the Big Lebowski joke, I've never seen Labyrinth!

good now everyone's confused

wait bowie's dead?

With the exception of The Man Who Fell To Earth, where he basically plays himself, Bowie is a disappointing actor. He's pretty wooden and his choice of projects wasn't too hot either.

ha -- there is no "himself" with Bowie though

He had sharp cameos in The Last Temptation of Christand The Prestige, did what he could with The Hunger, and did a good Bowie impersonation of Warhol in Basquiat; otherwise, I agree. His best perfs were in his videos.

Is it reading too much into it to think that mention of "Jesus' crazy stepbrother Terry" in the apocrypha of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a Bowie reference?

I really love Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and love Bowie in it, I don't know how much of that is justifiable and how much is down to seeing it at an impressionable age

ha -- there is no "himself" with Bowie though

His turn on Broadway in The Elephant Man was rapturously received. I wonder if they shot performances of that.

His turn on Broadway in The Elephant Man was rapturously received. I wonder if they shot performances of that.

― Iago Galdston, Sunday, January 24, 2016 8:49 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHSQpdC_Y6E

Was thinking earlier today how a famous line from The Elephant Man echoes a lyric of "All The Young Dudes" but especially one in "Five Years."

Thanks, flappy!

not disappointing you're insane lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nSqDMqCJQw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDkp7GysvbY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_6SQKuTHk

Did he ever do a bad job acting?

He did some bad films, yeah, but .

Come on. No he's not terrible, but he's pedestrian at best, aside from The Man Who Fell to Earth. Think about the unbelievable charisma he had as a rock star/performer - how much of that comes across in his acting? I watch his performance in The Prestige and think yes it's serviceable, but you get no notion of the presence he has in other media.

I always find it awkward seeing Bowie act, saw Fire Walk With Me recently and his performance is cringeworthy

He can't fucking act!

Just clearing that up for anyone in case of doubt.

There was a quote from Christopher Nolan about wanting him to play Tesla in The Prestige because of their shared otherworldy ahead-of-their-time-ness, but, as much as I really like The Prestige, Bowie's Tesla is just a bit... boring. And not really that otherworldly at all.